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JMIR Aging
December 2024
Family Caregiver Alliance, San Franciscio, CA, United States.
Background: In 2022, the US Department of Health and Human Services released the first National Strategy to Support Family Caregivers, identifying actions for both government and the private sector. One of the major goals is to expand data, research, and evidence-based practices to support family caregivers. While IT tools are widely deployed in health care settings, they are rarely available at scale in community agencies.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFResearch has increasingly focused on the intersection between gender diversity and autism. To better understand this literature, this scoping review systematically searched five databases for peer-reviewed literature on gender diversity and autism published between 2018 and 2023. Included studies ( = 84) were of English language, featured original qualitative or quantitative findings, and examined a psychosocial connection between autism and gender spectra variables.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIn the last issue of this journal, Ben Harris authored a research note on Margaret Floy Washburn and her cats (see record 2023-67784-001). What was not included with that piece was an image Washburn's bookplate, which shows an image of a cat (quite possibly a likeness of her most acclaimed cat, "Hiram") with an accompanying Biblical verse in Greek, taken from 1 Thessalonians 5:21, which translated reads as "Test all things; hold fast what is good (NKJV)." It is reproduced in this article.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Appl Psychol
December 2023
Department of Marketing, Pamplin College of Business, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech).
Although people often value the challenge and mastery of performing an activity, their satisfaction may suffer when the tasks comprising the activity are perceived as difficult. Thus, it is important to understand the factors that influence subjective judgments of difficulty. In this research, we introduce an easily actionable and effective tactic to reduce perceptions of the overall difficulty of an activity: We find that concluding a sequence of difficult tasks with a few easy tasks can decrease perceived difficulty of the aggregate activity.
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